Change the utilization state type for a production line

To change the production line's utilization state type, you change the utilization state for the appropriate bottleneck equipment. You can change the utilization state for each equipment using the Add Utilization Event actions menu option in each of the production line's equipment cards shown in the canvas (see also Add a utilization event). However, using the production line's state button allows you to change it for each bottleneck equipment from the same dialog, as described in the following procedure.

To change a line's utilization state type

1. Select the production line in the Equipment list.

2. Select the Equipment State button.

   

   

3. Select one of the bottleneck equipment whose utilization state you want to change.

4. Do one of the following:

   Select a reason.

   For more information about navigating reason groups and selecting a reason, see Reason groups and reasons.

   After selecting a reason, its associated equipment state is automatically assigned.

   If no reasons have been defined in the system, select an equipment state.

   Later, when the reason is known, the event can be changed to map to the reason. See Edit a utilization event.

   If a Downtime event has no reason assigned to it, the count and duration KPIs will not include the event. However, the time summary will include it.

5. Continue to select each bottleneck equipment whose utilization state you want to change and select a reason or state.

   Each piece of equipment whose state you changed appears above the comment field. To cancel the event change for a piece of equipment, select the equipment chip's close icon.

   

6. (Optional) Type a comment.

   Entries can include alphanumeric and special characters. Entries are limited to two lines or 130 characters.

7. Select Add.

   The production line's utilization state type changes according to the behavior described in Manage a production line's utilization state type.